Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants* 



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Dogs Mercury. ^ u 



f 2 PkyllonarrhenogononfwemArificum, 



Malechildrens Mercury. 



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<-hildrens Mercury the female. 



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1 "PA °g s Merctirie is foraewhat like 

 JLy vntothe garden Mercury, fauing 

 i -a ii tne leaues hereof are greater, and 

 the ltalke not Co tender, and yet very brittle 

 growing to the height or acubit,without any 

 branches at all , with fmalJ yellow floures. 

 The feed is like the female Mercuric $ 1 1 is 

 alio found like the male Mercurie, as you fee 

 them both expreft in the figure 5 and fo there 

 is both male and female of this Mercury al- 



2 Male childrens Mercury hath three or 

 foure fta[kes,or moe : the leaues be fomewhac 

 long, not much vnlike the leaues of the Oliue 

 tree, couercd oupr with a />»f» a~, 



wool! 

 thofe 



- r - mr > 7 — WJV 4V - WV * uu "Jie mole 



of Spurge, growing two together, being firft 

 of an afli-colour, but after turne toa blet 



uaA r J, ? ls muchin toapeliketo the 

 laft defcnbed, but the (hikes are weaker and 



are (mall and molTy,and they grow vpon long 



£5 £ hC T thc feeds of tb * °therare h£ 

 ned to very (hort ones : the feed is contained 



in ronnrl lirt-l^U^J- l_- /- . 



• , /, v "« • iut iccu is cone 



m round httle heads, bdng fometimes two, 

 otnervvhilPs three or more in a duller. * 



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